Skiddy Alms Houses
Almshouse in Cork, Ireland, dating from 1715–1720
Detached L-plan three- and four-bay two-storey former almshouse with dormer attic, built 1719, with arcade to ground floor. Now in use as flats. Hipped slate roof with round-headed dormer windows and rendered and red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with ashlar limestone dressings to arcade and having pair of carved limestone plaques. Timber sash windows with limestone sills. Timber panelled doors to ground floor. Limestone paving to arcade and to site. Round-headed entrance gate with ashlar limestone walls and having pair of wrought-iron gates. Rubble stone boundary walls to site.
- Type:
- Almshouse
- Period:
- 1715–1720
- Where:
- Cork, Ireland
- Coordinates:
- 51.90°N, 8.47°W
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